The NYWIFT Member Screening Series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. Screenings take place at the Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue at 2nd Street.

Unlike anyone you've ever met, LuLu is a hard-living, chain-smoking rebel with a heart. Aka Dr. Louise Nutter, she's a poet with a potty mouth, farm girl, ex-cheerleader, world-class biochemistry pioneer and beloved professor. LuLu has just discovered a new anti-cancer drug when, at age 42, she learns she has terminal breast cancer.

The LuLu Sessions records via video diary the journey S. Casper Wong shared with her mentor, best friend and on-again-off-again lover over the last 15 months of LuLu's life. Her compelling film chronicles how the two women test the limits of their bond and take on life's ultimate adventure, shedding old presumptions and values while adopting new ones in the process. Reflective, intensely honest and surprisingly humorous, this unforgettable documentary makes life’s last journey accessible in ways rarely seen on screen.

S. Casper Wong is a New York-based writer, director and producer. Her narrative feature screenplay, OO1, won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Grant, the Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at Urbanworld Film Festival and a Sloan Fellowship. Her award-winning short Shirts & Skins, had been screened internationally, shown on IFC, and is part of the Tribeca Film Institute’s Reframe Collection. She is currently in production for Staying Well, a feature documentary on integrative East-West medicine and the global health crisis. This collaboration with UCLA is also being developed as a three-part television series. Wong is in post-production with Becoming, a doc about Chinese adoptees in American families. Prior to receiving her MFA in film production from NYU, Casper was a senior attorney for IBM, specializing in international intellectual property and antitrust law. She holds a J.D. from New York Law School and a B.S. in bio-medical engineering from Columbia. She is also a reiki practitioner and an award-winning cartoonist. See more at: lulusessionsfilm.com/filmmakers/#wong

NYWIFT programs, screenings and events are supported, in part, by grants from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.